So what is everybody going to name their MC? I always find it one of the most difficult choices to make, along with the title. hehe. I have no idea atm, but I figured it'd be cool to hear what everyone else has thought of.... :)
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So what is everybody going to name their MC? I always find it one of the most difficult choices to make, along with the title. hehe. I have no idea atm, but I figured it'd be cool to hear what everyone else has thought of.... :) |
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Sources I use are the many lists of baby names you can find on the internet. For a period piece, some sites list them by popularity for different time periods. Eg, 'Jennifer' was the most popular baby name in, um, the 1970s, I think. You can get lists for different national origins and religions, too. Google 'baby names' and a qualifer such as 'norwegian' or 'muslim'.
The phone book is good for last names, too.
Finally, check out your selected name with
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Enter the name, and it will tell you how many persons with that name were listed in the US by the last census.
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Jack. Then again, it's based largely on fairy tales and nursery rhymes, so I think it's a perfectly fitting name for the main character of the story.
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My narrator's name is Bliss. Her husband is Milo; her 13-year-old daughter is Linnie. Her mother's ghost's name is Nyssa. And Nyssa's having an affair with a retired vampire called Beau Zivan. (The Z has a little mark above it so it's pronounced jzh, but I keep losing the alt-num code to make that. Guess I'd better find it again before the 1st, eh?).
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My main character's name is Henry, though no one at work calls him that. They continually call him Hank, much to his chagrin. His two best friends are Joey (Joshanna) and Fierce (Doug McPherson).
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My MC is Alys at the moment. Pronounced "Alice". Her sister is Amayri (A-marie). Since it's supposed to be loosely based off my family, and my sister and I both have first name's starting with M, I thought my characters should match up that way.
I've had fun going through and renaming family and friends. :)
One problem I've had is thinking up a good name for the evil sorcerer. I ended up nicknaming him "Darkness" and I've decided to leave it at that for now. If you say his real name, he'll hear you, no matter where you are so calling him Darkness is an a way to get around it. (Also he looks like Paul Gross on Eastwick)
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My lady is named Emily, her widower is named Ethan, and they owned a pawn shop called Double E Pawns.
She died in a shooting at said pawn shop, even :(
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Currently my MC's name is Shael but that could change as he is developed. That's what happened with my Villain, I had 2 different names in mind for him, and while interviewing him he decided his own name, Seromian. My Female MC's name is Tixierie. She prefers her full name or simply Tix, God help you if you call her Tixie, however my MC can get away with it since they are together.
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My two MCs that share equal importance and relative screen time are Maxford and Yanalyn, but Max and Yana for short. I like long, fantasy-ish names that can be shortened to more normal-sounding names, though those aren't completely fantasy-ish.
I usually have a pretty easy time naming main characters; conversely, I always have issues naming secondary characters. Titles are the worst, though, those have been known to take me years.
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I usually have a pretty easy time naming main characters; conversely, I always have issues naming secondary characters. Titles are the worst, though, those have been known to take me years.
Naming characters is usually the easiest part for me because I choose names based on their personalities. This year, I'm writing an Earth based story and it was really hard! Plus everyone has a nickname so it was even more difficult. But the names I did come up with are pretty cool. :D
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Nov 1, 2009 - 00 56
Names can be hard. My story is a set in a normal every day world nothing extraordinary so I needed just plain old every day names. I just thought of names of people I have met in passing that were neither unusual nor too popular.
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Kevin Pike. I needed a name that didn't sound too much like a hero. Maybe a little action-y, but not Good Guy heroic.
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I have two main characters. One is named Valerie, but she follows a Norse spiritual belief so her friends started calling her Valkyrie and eventually shortened it to Kyrie, which is what she goes by most of the time. Then the other character's name is Jonah, haha not half as interesting.
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I am mainly drawing from Old English. Some characters' name are completely made up.
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John Doe and Officer Otterton :D
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Zara Shaw and Lucian McCormick ^_^
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My MC's name is Mia (pronounced My-ah, not Me-ah, thank you. She's very sensitive about that.) Some names just pop out from the keyboard. Other's get changed as I get to know them. I alternately like to play against type or use names that fit their images. MC is the only with a fanciful name. Because she's different from everyone else she knows.
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I suddenly wants to change my character's name from Henry to Jacinto... or eventually Jack... Which I have issues with because almost every action hero's name is Jack, or John, which basically the same name... Sorry, Hank, you're stuck with it. :D
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Yanizeth. She doesn't have a last name, or at least not that she knows of.
The nice thing about being a teacher is the vast collection of names to choose from!
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My MC names are Kala and Shan. It's set in a fantasy world, so I gave myself free reign to go crazy with the names.
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My main character's name is Peri. Rovers, however, call each other by their vessel names, so depending on who he's speaking with, he'll either be Peri or Stardreamer. The secondary main character is Solomon, husband of the priestess G'Se. Solomon is a low-level bureaucrat working under the authority of the Ruling Council of Alsafi (aka Sigma Draconis II).
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Most of my MC and other characters names drawn from Middle English or Old Norse. A couple are just made up. One was inspired by a song.
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Joseph R. Baldwin the Second.
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Well, my MC is Meliak but most non-mircon (read:landdwellers) call her Meli. Since -ak is just a feminine name ending she kind of is named Meli after all.
Her sister is Ashaak "Asha." Other notable names are Queen Reniak, King Amaet, (Queen) Desa Qua, King Marc Luc Rigul, Lateak "Lateu," Teliet "Teli," King Ush Läyi, Mrawryaar "Mra," etc. Then you get into the only slightly off from familiar names like the Spanish derived ones Like Jorge Pelaez and Pabli Marini (that's a bly and a ny sound at the end of those names for those of you keeping score at home) and pseudo-latin ones.
Longest name so far: "Asdrubal Hermenegildi Cebrián Venceslás Fulgenchí Sebastián Oleastri dí Prieti the Third" who my MC calls Cienti (pronounced almost like chench, a cropping of cientifico = scientist) because she can't pronounce any of his names. It's okay, Asdrubal is used to it, it beats being Asaderubal or Asermal.
In case you hadn't noticed, most of the weirder names have nicknames of some sort to make it easier for the casual reader to recognize them. And the other characters to address them.
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I have decided on Ariana, Renner (which I will more than likely change, but it's sticking for the moment unfortunately), Emily, Ethan, and Lily. More main characters are trying to pop into this, orz. >.> I tried to stick with pleasant sounding, not too out there names. Not that I don't love them, because I adore them.
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